The moon slides across a giant bow-tie. If you squint you can see snow, then you look back to wonder if it was ever there at all. What would Irving Berlin say (I poured my heart into you, son)? Hi there. I hope you are all well. We're waiting for that day again, we love the songs and we love the drinking and we love the weather, sometimes. You love to hail. We're walking out in silver lines. It's strange and unsettling the way Christmas moves in when your back is turned, since fifteen years ago I wouldn't have eaten seventeen advent calendar chocolates at once, I think. In fact, I know. My calendar is Spiderman, and it says strange, cryptic things behind each window (behind the first: 'This is your last chance'). I don't know WHAT to believe! At work, we are concentrating on giving people nervous breakdowns. It's more fun than actual work, and the prime culprit got a blue silk tie today for his hard graft. I got a zip. Check: zip. Also at work, a man called 'Turner Bone', like a cross between Tyrone and Max Power. I hope I never see the man, for it will only end in disappointment. Always meet your heroes though - they say things like 'I like your jumper'. It was my birthday at the tail end of last month - I got three price stickers, and a host of other items. One of the best; a t-shirt which spouted, two years on, with all the delicious irony of it's conceiver - 'Brand New Friend'. !!. Sometimes, you know, I still think of things that way. Have you ever tried to write a song based around only one major rhyming sound? It's not SO easy. What WOULD he say? (..looking for the tune..). So, holiday season. I should buy some gifts, which is harder than it sounds. It requires E.F.F.O.R.T. What's more, the sales are retracted and Someone, somewhere, catches a(n) ('air')plane. Have a lovely time. Spend more time than you should with your grandparents. Merry Christmas. Off with my glove. Love, Alasdair xx _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_eliminateviruses_3mf +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+